Cookout

My friends and I had been itching to grill for quite a while.  Finally, we had the perfect day.  I marinated portabella mushroom caps and we brought brats and veggie burgers. John and some others also made chili which smelled excellent.  We grilled parsnips which were delicious and I also slit a zucchini, stuffed it with goat cheese and poured the rest of my marinade over it and wrapped it in foil to grill.  It was a bit overcooked, but quite tasty.

Our friend Ben invited us to share his community garden plot with him and this was the location of the first of hopefully many barbecues.

We just planted about 2 weeks ago, so obviously not much has shown yet.  Soon we will have:

peas, black seeded lettuce, emerald oak lettuce, radishes, spinach, chard, parsley, dill, bok choy, carrots, scallions, purplette onions, oregano, thai basil, cinnamon basil, and beets

A highlight of this cookout was John and Harold's most recent homebrew, a delicious red ale.  John recently invested in this keg system which I think we all appreciated yesterday. 

Comments

[chefsf]

wow....I just caught up with your blog and I'm jealous of all the cool stuff you've been doing. I've been really bad about updating my blog lately. School is just so damn busy now. 1 more week to go and then summer. I also envy you for the bakery you have in the neighborhood.

[Evan Petrie]

I like that picture of John a lot. It prompted me to go look for his beer reviews that used to be on his website, but alas, I could not find them! Do you know if they are still online somewhere?

Night,

Evan

[gemma]

Hi Sera, your life is definitely busier than mine at the moment. I wish I was getting a summer this year though! Hopefully you will have some free time then to relax.

I'm not sure where his beer reviews went Evan. I just looked and could not find them either. I will ask him tonight and let you know. I like that picture too. As I was taking it someone commented that it was going to look trashy, but I think it turned out nicely. He looks so happy. (As he should be, that was super tasty beer he made).

[kasia]

hey, where are you guys getting the seeds or baby plants to grow? Or are you doing some kind of tricksy growing from the actual vegetable? I've been wanting to plant some basil and cilantro, and I can't find plants/seeds in HP for the life of me.

[gemma]

Kasia, Ben goes to a gardening store on the Northside. I don't have the name but I am sure he could give you more information about it next time you see him.

We are planting from seeds, though some plants are being started in the greenhouse. We didn't plant cilantro, but we will have two interesting kinds of basil and Jack (Ben's father) has planted a massive plot entirely full of basil. Point being, we can probably hook you up.